The Irish standard., 1887-02-26

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| 1t also withholds from them tha
which is the life blood of people-tht
right to protect manufacturing indus
tries, which is of much more serious i'm
portance to the Irish people than the
land question. The bill permits this
Parliament to levy taxes in Ireland
At the same time it withholds the right
to levy the only taxes the British Gov
ernment has ever collected in Ireland
namely, the customs and internal reve
nue.. So glaring was this insult: not
only to the Irish people but to the car
dinal doctrines of no taxation without
representation, that when MI. Glad
stone spoke of a fiscal union between
the two islands: a Tory member-Lord
Randolph Churchill--twitted him with
the fact that the English Parliams snt,
while passing the Irish budget, would
by the provisions of the bill, have no
representation in the House by which
taxes were being levied Oh the Irish
people.
The crowning insult to the Irish peo-
pie and the intelligence of the Irish
race, was the form of the so-named
Irish Government as proposed in the
Gladstone bill. The seventh and eighth
clauses of that bill provided for the ap-
pointmenJ of an Irish Executive. Said
Irish Government was to consist Of a
Lord Lieutenant, appointed by the
British Crown, and whatever number
of gentlemen in Dublin Castle he wished
TO select as members of his council.
This despotism would be all exact fac
sinile OF the so-called Indian Govern
ment, which rules in Hindoostan to-
day. 1t was to shape the desuinies Of
the Irish people. This government, as
autocratic as that OF Russia, was styled
in the Pecksnitfian phraseology Of the
British Premier an Irish Government.
To this despotism was to De delegated
the selection of the magistrates and
judges and possibly the control OF the
Irish constabulary. And this subject
has been SO debated in the public press,
and I regret to say by Irish speakers on
public platforms, as if these powers
We're to be given to the Irish people,
instead Of which they were to
be given to q foreign despotism,
with the insulting and mock title
of an Irish Parliament. Mr.. Glad
stones object was to get rid OF the
eighty-ive inconvenient votes and
voices Of the Irish representatives in
the House of Commons, SO as to pre-
serve the pretence which England has
always kept before the world that Ire
land was q constitutionally governed
portion of the Empire. So ably were
Mr.. Gladstone's plans laid that he
wouli. make the Irish members un-
conscious signers Of their own death
warrants. Finally, this bill would make
Ireland occupy the same position i'll the
British Empire as India or the other
Grown colonies occupy today. With
the addition Of the mockery OF a Par
lament sitting in Dublin without the
powers of a grand jury, their legisla
tion confined to roads and bridges, and
handicapped even in this by q first Or
der Of 103 anti-Irish, who would have
not only the power of sitting in de-
bates and legislating with the rest OF
the members, but also the extraordi-
nary veto power: while sitting by them
selves as first order, to bar any legis
lation Of the popular body for three
wears, and this Pal lament, over
siladowed by an anti-Irish executive,
with the power to summon and dissolve
Parliament at his pleasure.
The address was listened to with the
most profound interest, and made a
deep impression. At it's conclusion the
lecturer retired amidst the plaudits of
his hearers. MIR. lyman also lectured
OH recent Sunday evening, at Leland
Opera House, Albany, n. 7.
While Ireland is at peace" and all
that, it is worth noting that the Eng
lish have an army Of occupation in that
island almost exactly ;ss large as the en-
tire standing army Of the United States.
This is the roster: Six regiments Of
cavalry, sixteen batteries and two de-.
pots OF artillery, one battalion of guards.
twenty-four of 1.-THE Line" three COM
panies Of engineers, five of the commits
sariat and transport corps and four dl-
visions of the medical staff corps. This
gives strength of nearly $4,000 officers
and men, of whom about $500 are cav
airy, l 400 artillery aud 1900 infantry.
Ireland is just about as large as In
diana. If the whole standing army OF
the United States were concentrated
within that State, its inhabitants might
think that they were being somewhat
sintimidated.'
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